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Subsequently, on 4 June, Kan was designated prime minister by the Diet. [20] On 8 June, Emperor Akihito formally appointed Kan as the 94th Prime Minister, and the 29th postwar prime minister. His cabinet was formed later on the day. Kan's approval ratings fell in the month of June after he proposed an increase in the sales tax rate from 5% to ...
An Amateur in Politics Becomes the Youngest Prime Minister of Japan!! (小学校教師が日本を変える！？政治の素人が最年少総理大臣に!！) 23.8% 02: Prince of the Diet's First Experience (国会王子の初体験) 23.0% 03: Tonight, the Prime Minister of Japan's Debut!! (今夜、総理誕生！！) 22.4% 04: The Prime ...
The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. 32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the Emperor.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced he will step down next month and will not run for a second term as leader of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, following a series of ...
Shigeru Ishiba, president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was seen dozing off in parliament on Monday where he was reelected as the prime minister.. Video footage showed Mr ...
After Kishida announced that he would step down in 2024, Ishiba ran for the fifth and final time in the LDP presidential election where he defeated Sanae Takaichi in a second round run-off, becoming the new party leader and prime minister–designate, and was formally elected Prime Minister by the National Diet on 1 October 2024. [2]
Shinzo Abe (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ n z oʊ ˈ ɑː b eɪ / SHIN-zoh AH-bay; Japanese: 安倍 晋三, Hepburn: Abe Shinzō, IPA: [abe ɕindzoː]; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
A Japanese vice finance minister stepped down on Monday, amid criticism from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet, after admitting his company's repeated failures to pay taxes, a further setback ...